August 27, 2025 • 5 mins
Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray dive headfirst into the swirling chaos of college football’s opening weekend — and the bittersweet farewell of a sports broadcasting legend.As ESPN prepares to honor Lee Corso’s final College GameDay appearance, the crew takes a nostalgic (and hilarious) trip down memory lane. KT unearths a legendary, cringeworthy, and absolutely unhinged interview between Corso and Dan McDowell. A moment so tense and awkward, it’s radio gold. You’ll hear Corso misfire with the word “inferred” multiple times, accuse McDowell of taking “a shot” at him, and storm off in a way only Corso could.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What is up with these Mica to the Packers rumors. Well,
we'll talk about that in about ten minutes, but right now,
let's stop.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
For this.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
OS. It's time to go into the boding schedule. Wordyback motion.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
It is going to be a weirdly emotional Saturday morning
for some people because on college game Day, right before
Texas and Ohio State play at eleven am, it will
be the last appearance of ninety year old Lee Corso.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Can I ask one quick question?
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Why would you have Ohio State and Texas play at
eleven am? It's the most important game, It's one of
the biggest games of the whole season. You're starting off
with it. Why wouldn't it be in prime timee?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Fox?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Bot it so big noon kickoff? I believe it would
be my that's my guess. Isn't it ABC that gets
to have the night thing?
Speaker 4 (00:49):
No?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Fox has some night games too, They.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Get some night games too, but their whole thing is
big noon kickoff, which is eleven o'clock here. Yeah, okay,
I believe that game is on Yeah, that game's on Fox.
It's a part of Fox got the big ten rights
and all that stuff, and they've you know, they've got.
They get big games like that now. It is weird
that's happening at eleven though. You'd love to have that
game at night, but start the season off three verse
number one, Good God, that's gonna be great. Incredible point
(01:14):
is Lee Corso though. On college game Day. If you
don't know who that is, he's the old guy who
at the end of college game Day when they have
their guest celebrity picker on, he puts on a mascotthead
to pick whatever game they're at. It's really, honestly, it's
a great bit.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I thought he retired five years ago.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Well they've had to scalp back because he can't make
words very well anymore. But I was sadden be as
cynical about it as you want. ESPN put this thing
out there and it's a little special on him, and
it's all these people who are just bawling about how
much Lee Corso is meant to them. Dude, it's crazy.
I get sent it. It's very strange.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
I get it.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
Dick Vital whips my ass to no end. But he
is a legend and he exploded college basketball in the eighties.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
His presence.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
The first thing I'll do is play? Just an old
classic Corso clip when he's got the kid from a
town the nights up there picking games.
Speaker 7 (02:01):
Yeah, Compo dogs, Yo, not so fast, Ridgit not so fast,
Mitch it yeah, little guy, Hey, not so fast?
Speaker 4 (02:11):
I go, I go with Harvard.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
What's the matter.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
I'm gonna go with They're all laughing. It's so good.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
Cracker Barrel should have put him on their logo.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Hey, dude, he might need to be the next Herschel
for sure. But so back in the day, a long
time ago, there was an interview on a station in
town called The Ticket, and it was on a show
called Bad Radio. And it's Bob Sterm and Dan McDowell.
Dann McDowell now hosts the Dumb Zone podcast, and uh,
Lee Corso is stopping by, and this interview is out
(02:45):
there public domain. I mean I found it online easily. Uh,
But I was like, let's not play that. Let's let's
trick it up a little bit. So this is a
legendary fight between Lee Corso and Dan McDowell. In this interview,
Dan McDowell will be the all strillion one, okay, and
you'll hear Bob come in for a reset in the
middle of this fight.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Bert Reynolds was the leading movie star in the world
five straight years.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Not a lot of people know this, but Lee Corso
was actually the second person to pose nude. Correct or
did I read that wrong?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
I won't even give you the next question. I think
that was very sarcastic and I don't appreciate it. And
I'm not kidding really, yeah, because why would you say.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
That because it's somewhat funny.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
No, it's not funny at all. In fact, they really
the people out there that don't know me might think,
what kind of jerk is this guy?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
What don't you think most people listening might know me better?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
I mean they probably think you're jerk. You are a jerk.
I am on your show to try to help you.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
We're having fun here.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
No, you're telling us funny stories about Burt Reynolds, and
now all of a sudden, I'm a big jerk.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
No, you are a big jerk because of the fact
you take a shot at me a show. Yes, because
you inferred to the fact that I pose naked, And
how is that a shot? Because that's against what I
would do and it's.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Not a joke.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Then wouldn't that be the irony of the whole situation,
not to me. Leek also certainly wouldn't do that, but
Reynolds would. But I just don't really understand where this
is coming from here.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Well, it's your show, all.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Right, this is Lee Corso with us. I think he
was joking. Coach.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Well, I don't appreciate people taking shots and joking at
my expense when I don't do that to anybody else.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
And that's real silly. I don't think that you should
be offended.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
At all, Okay, and I thought we were sitting here
laughing and having a good time.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Well, not at my expense.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
I really don't understand how you would say it was
at your expense.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Either, because of the fact that you inferred to the
people out there who don't know me that I would
pose naked and do something like that.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Oh so I should just thank you for stopping by then.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Sank you very much. I appreciate you, Okay, my pleasure,
so all right.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Oh my god, that's so good.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
I wish McDowell was Australian. That would change the way
sports radio forever.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
That one was wildly advanced, and one was like really like, yeah,
well that's because Corso's old.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
That's why I did that. I had a couple of versions,
like he sounds too young in these, and.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
He misused the word in Ford like three times in there.
It's so good, fantastic work. Kevin Turner.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Kevin Turner, my guy in Dallas and crowd
What is up with these Mica to the Packers rumors. Well,
we'll talk about that in about ten minutes, but right now,
let's stop.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
For this.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
OS. It's time to go into the boding schedule. Wordyback motion.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
It is going to be a weirdly emotional Saturday morning
for some people because on college game Day, right before
Texas and Ohio State play at eleven am, it will
be the last appearance of ninety year old Lee Corso.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Can I ask one quick question?
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Why would you have Ohio State and Texas play at
eleven am? It's the most important game, It's one of
the biggest games of the whole season. You're starting off
with it. Why wouldn't it be in prime timee?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Fox?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Bot it so big noon kickoff? I believe it would
be my that's my guess. Isn't it ABC that gets
to have the night thing?
Speaker 4 (00:49):
No?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Fox has some night games too, They.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Get some night games too, but their whole thing is
big noon kickoff, which is eleven o'clock here. Yeah, okay,
I believe that game is on Yeah, that game's on Fox.
It's a part of Fox got the big ten rights
and all that stuff, and they've you know, they've got.
They get big games like that now. It is weird
that's happening at eleven though. You'd love to have that
game at night, but start the season off three verse
number one, Good God, that's gonna be great. Incredible point
(01:14):
is Lee Corso though. On college game Day. If you
don't know who that is, he's the old guy who
at the end of college game Day when they have
their guest celebrity picker on, he puts on a mascotthead
to pick whatever game they're at. It's really, honestly, it's
a great bit.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I thought he retired five years ago.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Well they've had to scalp back because he can't make
words very well anymore. But I was sadden be as
cynical about it as you want. ESPN put this thing
out there and it's a little special on him, and
it's all these people who are just bawling about how
much Lee Corso is meant to them. Dude, it's crazy.
I get sent it. It's very strange.
Speaker 5 (01:48):
I get it.
Speaker 6 (01:49):
Dick Vital whips my ass to no end. But he
is a legend and he exploded college basketball in the eighties.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
His presence.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
The first thing I'll do is play? Just an old
classic Corso clip when he's got the kid from a
town the nights up there picking games.
Speaker 7 (02:01):
Yeah, Compo dogs, Yo, not so fast, Ridgit not so fast,
Mitch it yeah, little guy, Hey, not so fast?
Speaker 4 (02:11):
I go, I go with Harvard.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
What's the matter.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
I'm gonna go with They're all laughing. It's so good.
Speaker 6 (02:22):
Cracker Barrel should have put him on their logo.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Hey, dude, he might need to be the next Herschel
for sure. But so back in the day, a long
time ago, there was an interview on a station in
town called The Ticket, and it was on a show
called Bad Radio. And it's Bob Sterm and Dan McDowell.
Dann McDowell now hosts the Dumb Zone podcast, and uh,
Lee Corso is stopping by, and this interview is out
(02:45):
there public domain. I mean I found it online easily. Uh,
But I was like, let's not play that. Let's let's
trick it up a little bit. So this is a
legendary fight between Lee Corso and Dan McDowell. In this interview,
Dan McDowell will be the all strillion one, okay, and
you'll hear Bob come in for a reset in the
middle of this fight.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Bert Reynolds was the leading movie star in the world
five straight years.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
Not a lot of people know this, but Lee Corso
was actually the second person to pose nude. Correct or
did I read that wrong?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
I won't even give you the next question. I think
that was very sarcastic and I don't appreciate it. And
I'm not kidding really, yeah, because why would you say.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
That because it's somewhat funny.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
No, it's not funny at all. In fact, they really
the people out there that don't know me might think,
what kind of jerk is this guy?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
What don't you think most people listening might know me better?
Speaker 4 (03:44):
I mean they probably think you're jerk. You are a jerk.
I am on your show to try to help you.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
We're having fun here.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
No, you're telling us funny stories about Burt Reynolds, and
now all of a sudden, I'm a big jerk.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
No, you are a big jerk because of the fact
you take a shot at me a show. Yes, because
you inferred to the fact that I pose naked, And
how is that a shot? Because that's against what I
would do and it's.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Not a joke.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Then wouldn't that be the irony of the whole situation,
not to me. Leek also certainly wouldn't do that, but
Reynolds would. But I just don't really understand where this
is coming from here.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Well, it's your show, all.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Right, this is Lee Corso with us. I think he
was joking. Coach.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Well, I don't appreciate people taking shots and joking at
my expense when I don't do that to anybody else.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
And that's real silly. I don't think that you should
be offended.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
At all, Okay, and I thought we were sitting here
laughing and having a good time.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Well, not at my expense.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
I really don't understand how you would say it was
at your expense.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Either, because of the fact that you inferred to the
people out there who don't know me that I would
pose naked and do something like that.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Oh so I should just thank you for stopping by then.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Sank you very much. I appreciate you, Okay, my pleasure,
so all right.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Oh my god, that's so good.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
I wish McDowell was Australian. That would change the way
sports radio forever.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
That one was wildly advanced, and one was like really like, yeah,
well that's because Corso's old.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
That's why I did that. I had a couple of versions,
like he sounds too young in these, and.
Speaker 6 (05:29):
He misused the word in Ford like three times in there.
It's so good, fantastic work. Kevin Turner.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Kevin Turner, my guy in Dallas and crowd
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